The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-10-19

corn and wheat, or who are em-
Ployed in other industrial pursuits;
some want to increase the pensions
already allowed, and grant addi-
tional ones, to the deserving and
undeserving alike; some want the
government to loan money to the
people to start in business or pay
their debts; and one gentleman at
least, who may be supposedto speak
for a considerable number of his
party associates, advocates the erec-
tion of public building in every
city having population of 10000;
not because there is any necessity
for it, but simply in order s'to have
continually before the people a yisi-
bic testimonial to the existence of
the national government These
are only a few samples Of the selfish
and extrayagant projects which an
oyerfowing treasury has developed,
but they are enough to show the
danger of longer delay in the con-
sideration of this subject"
Mr.. Carlisle then defines whatthe
object of the inevitable revenue and
tax legislation must be. By increas-
ing the rates of taxation on inn
ports to point at which they would
become prohibitory the government
might reduce the revenue without
reducing the burdens of the people.
Or it might reduce tariff rates in
such a manner that the encourage
ment of Importation would increase
the revenue. The problem is to re-
duce both revenue and taxation.
The true Democratic solution, Mr..
Carlisle says, is to abolish, as far as
practical, the taxes on the actual
necessaries of life and on the raw
materials used in their production,
and to revise, simplify and, in pro-
per places, reduce the duties on the
other articles embraced in the tariff
schedules. This is the policy advo-
Gated in the Saratoga platform of
the Democratic party of New York.
The Republican solution is to repeal
all the internal taxes upon whisky,
beer and manufactured tobacco, and
retain higher.rate of taxation on
food, fuel, clothing, building mate
rails and implements.
Mr.. Carlisle rehearses the reasons
why the existing internal taxes
should not be abolished, and he crit
icises the arguments used by those
who advocate their abolition. He
then shows that the charge that the
Democratic party wants to give the
products of foreign labor an advan-
tage our own markets is groundless,
and that the laboring people have
no reason for supporting a system
of taxation which, while it does not
increase the amount of their wages,
greatly diminishes their purchasing
power. Mr.. Carlisle thinks that a
practical compromise might be en-
bodied in a bill connecting the total
or partial repeal of the tax on man
ufactured tobacco with proper re-
duction of the tariff duties. Such a
bill, as a compromise measure, in
his opinion, would be almost certain
to pass the Democratic House OF
Representatives. IF the Republican
Senate insisted upon free whisky
and free beer, the question would
be forced into the next Presidential
campaign.
AS tasks for which the Democratic
party by its principles, traditions
and tendencies is fitted and the Re-
publican party is peculiarly disqual-
flied, Mr.. Carlisle names the reduc-
ton of the ordinary expenditures OF
the government, the Legislative re-
form and simplification of the ma
chinery of administration, the res
toration of our navy and the revival
of our ocean carrying trade. The
policy which he advocates and for
which he confidently expects the
approval of the nation is "the Dem
ocratic policy of low taxation, econ
omy in the administration of public
affairs, non-interference with the
private business of the people, equal
regard for the reserved rights OF
the States and the constitutional
authority of the federal government
protection to the citizen at home
and abroad, and just and equal laws
for the promotion and encourage.
ment of every honest industry and
every species of lawful commerce. =
John Sherman is pegging away al
his presidential boom, in Ohio, while
Blaine is absent in aforeign ports, .
kept there by his trainers, to pre-
vart his onaniDo, his mouth and mt